Keeping up with design and technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. The Radar is our gift to you, Current or Potential Client, so that you can enjoy all of the awesome without any of the drudgery. Unwrap it each week, and know that you’re loved by the geeks and pixel-pushers at Objective.
UI Movement
An interesting compilation of UI design inspiration.
View Site
Kano
Kano is an education kit designed to help kids learn about computers and coding.
View Site
Chrome’s Developer Console
Ten functions you can use in Chrome’s javascript console to make debugging easier. Some of these you can do with Chrome’s developer tools by clicking buttons and such. Others, like laying out a variable in a table, are exclusive to the console.
View Site
React Components
A curated list of React components.
View Repo
UI Toolkit
A UI toolkit for react-native that is similar to the popular Bootstrap library.
View Repo
GitHub GraphQL API
Github added support for GraphQL, and open sourced some ruby gems they have used in the process.
Full Article
R for Data Science
A book about using the programming language R for analyzing data. Not available in print yet, but you can test it out online. It doesn’t seem to go over the basic syntax of R, so you may want to find a quick intro online before starting the book.
View Book
Design for Relevance, then usability
Product teams shouldn’t misuse usability testing to infer relevance. Establish feature relevance first, and optimize for usability later.
Full Article
Keeping up with design and technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. The Radar is our gift to you, Current or Potential Client, so that you can enjoy all of the awesome without any of the drudgery. Unwrap it each week, and know that you’re loved by the geeks and pixel-pushers at Objective.
Why We Should All be Data Literate
This article explains why designers should be data literate and proposes simple habits of critical thought and mathematical practice which enhances data literacy.
Full Article
Google Ups the Ante on Web Encryption
Google will soon mark all unencrypted sites as “insecure”.
Full Article
A Nerd’s Guide to Color on the Web
A good explanation of how colors work on a computer and some different ways to use them on the web.
Full Article
Github Universe
Github has released several new features recently to improve code reviews and better manage projects.
Full Article
Adobe Stock
Sell your stock images to Adobe and get a 33-35% commission.
Full Article
Keeping up with design and technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. The Radar is our gift to you, Current or Potential Client, so that you can enjoy all of the awesome without any of the drudgery. Unwrap it each week, and know that you’re loved by the geeks and pixel-pushers at Objective.
Boosting Your Rates with Psychologically Validated Principles
Interesting read on the psychology behind different marketing and conversion techniques.
Full Article
The Death of Localhost and the Rise of Cloud Development
Cloud IDEs are gaining favor among developers.
Full Article
Web Developer Checklist
A checklist for Web Developers to go through before deploying a site.
View Checklist
Awesome Design
A fairly comprehensive list of resources for UI/UX designers.
View Repo
Rust
A language that boasts to “write like Python, but run like C”.
View Site
Idris
A compiled, functional programming language. The syntax is similar to Haskell, although it uses eager evaluation instead of lazy evaluation.
View Site
Is your Project Pointless?
Here are three questions to ask yourself to decide. Don’t focus on your budget or what you want to build. Instead, focus on the problem you are trying to solve.
Full Article